O'Neill was very bad at Villa. He paid stupid money for bad players, and never did anything in Europe despite the absurd amounts of money he was spending. I can understand not quite cracking into the CL positions, but the least he could have done was perform okay in the Europa League. But in that competition he was thwarted in the early rounds by Austrian and Danish teams.

The problem is that now, it's a knock on effect - ol' Randy at Villa refuses to allow Lambert to spend money on players (although he likes to use younger, cheaper players anyway) so that's why their midfield goes to shit every game, because there's barely any experienced midfielders in the Villa squad. If Villa hadn't uncovered one of the best signings of the past 5 years in Benteke, Villa probably would have been relegated by now.